Paper receptacle



(no Model.)

0. H. HICKS.

PAPER REOEPTAGLE.

Patented July 26 Zi/n eljs-ea T0 at whom it may concerni sirable and effective means for closing it.

UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

OLIVER H. HICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PAPER RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part a Letters Patent. No. 367,298, dated my 26, 1887.

Application filed March 12, 1887. Serial No. 230,745. (No model.)

Be it known that I, OLIVER H. HIoKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper Receptacles; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to, an improvement upon the construction of paper receptacles shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 351,980 granted to me on the 2d day of November, 1886; and it is the object of my present construction, like that in my said former patent, to dispense with a separate cover for the receptacle and provide other more de- To this end my improvement consists in the construction hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of the paper receptacle opened and provided on one side with a ball or handle, the ends of which form the clamps by insertion through openings in the opposite side and bending them; and Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the receptacle closed and clamped by means 'of my improvement. 1

A is the coverless receptacle, formed by folding a continuous sheet of paper, as described in my aforesaid Letters Patent, to produce the fiat base?" and rectangular shape represented, the free or loose corners q and q formed by the folding being lapped one upon the other, 1 as shown, over the opposite sides of the receptacle HITI$S6CUTQ1II1 any desired manner. l

B is tli'e bail or handle, composed of some I material that possesses the quality of pliability I and will remain in any form and position to which it is bent, such as wire., The material forming the'handle is bent to the angular shape illustrated, and the opposite ends are inserted through one side of the open receptacle near its upper edge to afford strips or strands p, which project into the receptacle and are bent upward, as shown, or down against the inner surface of such side.

receptacle,

aforesaid, subserves a twofold purpose, one

being to secure the handle from withdrawal and'consequent possible loss in the handling or shipment of the article prior to its use as a receptacle, and the other to prevent the strips or strands from forming an obstruction in nesting the receptacles, it being necessary, or at least desirable, to nest them for shipment.

To close the receptacle, and thus effectively shield its contents from exposure, the opposite sides are compressed together, the ends toward their upper edgesbeing at the same time forced inward to assume the shape represented-in Fig. 2, and the strips or strands on the handle previously straightened are caused to penetrate the opposite side of the preferably by being inserted through respectively adjacent openings 0 and j bent back overthe contiguous edges of the opposite sides to-clamp them together.

The bail andclamps serve to secure or assist I in securing against the respective sides of the receptacle the folded corners, which also re-enforce the article and produce, if the insertion of the clamps and hail be at the points, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, quintnple thick- 1. nesses of the paper, whereby sufficient resist- I ance is afforded against tearing out the bail of toward the opening and secured inclosed condition by extending the extremities forming the strips 1) through the opposite side and fastening them, substantially as described.

OLIVER H. HICKS.

In presence of- J. W. DYR-ENFORTH, DOUGLAS DYRENFORTH. 

